Champion Of The World

Album: Everyday Life (2019)
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  • I tried my best to be just like
    The other boys in school
    I tried my best to get it right
    And died at every June
    This mountainside is suicide
    This dream will never work
    Still the sign upon my headstone, write
    "A champion of the world"

    I tried my best to stay alight
    Fly like a firework
    I tried my best to taking flak
    But my rocket ship reversed
    No referee, don't stop the fight
    Everyone can see I'm hurt
    But I'll stand before conquistadors
    'Til I'm champion of the world

    (When I sail) and when I sail
    I'm sailing west
    (Though I might fail) knowing I might fail
    But still I am hoping for the best
    (In my dreams) and in my dreams
    Onto my chest
    She'll bring the colors and say
    "I wandered the whole wide world
    But baby, you're the best"

    La, la, la, la, oh
    Oh, oh, oh, ay
    La, la, la, la

    So I'm flying on my bicycle
    Heading upwards from the Earth
    I am jumping with no parachute
    Out into the universe
    I am E.T. on my bicycle
    With this kid and I want more
    I am riding on my rocket ship
    And I'm champion of the world Writer/s: Andy Monaghan, Christopher Anthony John Martin, Guy Rupert Berryman, Harcourt Whyte, Jonathan Mark Buckland, Scott John Hutchison, Simon Liddell, William Champion
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • AnonymousIn 97.9X WBSX's Uninterrupted Disruption track by track, Chris Martin mentioned that this song is both about himself, and his own story, and about the late Don Agustín López Pacheco. Despite being disabled due to polio, he spent most of his life trying to build a helicopter out of scrap.
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